by BalanceGirl | Mar 31, 2020 | Equality, Family & Friends, Growth Architecture, Single Parenting
What’s important about a father’s parental leave? What does it offer that is critical and valuable? I believe that maternity leave for men—which I like to describe as ‘parental leave’—is truly important especially when we look at equality from the other side. Equal...
by BalanceGirl | May 12, 2018 | Family & Friends, Self Improvement, Women's Code, Women's Issues, Work Life Balance
Here’s a personal bit that perhaps you can relate to. Day after day, we slay dragons in our businesses. We make hard decisions of who stays and who goes, who gets the job, and who holds our trust. But at the end of the day, we are supposed to shift into relationship...
by Beate Chelette | Sep 9, 2015 | Career/Success, Communication, Family & Friends, Women and Success, Work Life Balance
I love doing radio shows and TV interviews. Steve, a host from a station in Chicago, just sent me an email asking me to come back on his show—urgently. His new producer has not yet heard me speak about gender decoding. Steve is worried that his producer’s hot...
by Beate Chelette | May 14, 2015 | Business, Family & Friends, Women's Code, Work Life Balance
In my last article I wrote about the five reasons I often encounter when my clients dig deep into what is holding them back from achieving their goals. We refer to this as lack of confidence in our own abilities and fear of success. The reasons as to why we feel that...
by Beate Chelette | Mar 30, 2015 | Discover, Family & Friends, Women's Choices, Work Life Balance
Business has changed. It is a relationship-driven environment more than ever before. Blame the Millennials, if you wish, for their insatiable appetite for peer approval and willingness to share. What do you personally stand for has never been more important than it is...
by Beate Chelette | Mar 25, 2015 | Family & Friends, Women's Code, Work Life Balance
She lied right to your face, he didn’t take responsibility for the screw-up at work, and the project manager blames everyone else when she’s the one who can’t seem to, well… manage. If only people weren’t so unreliable! Or, as I now like to call it—messy....
